M.A., Psychology

Rutgers University

Camden, NJ

2016 - 2014

• Thesis: Accuracy of Gender and Ethnic Labels and Personality Perception As Moderated by Prejudice
• Advisor: Wayne Chan

B.A., Psychology, Sociology (minor Childhood Studies/Women & Gender Studies)

Rutgers University

Camden, NJ

2014 - 2010

• Minors: Childhood Studies / Women’s and Gender Studies
• Summa Cum Laude (GPA: 3.965)

Research Technician Associate

BioSocial Methods Collaborative

Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Current - September 2021

• Using behavioral coding, psychophysiological, and tradtiional behavioral methods online and in a homelike setting, conducting research that bridges biology and behavior tackling varied interdiscplinary topics.
• Assisted in hosting annual reserch training workshops for early career reseearchers and graduate students in public health ad related fields
• Worked on several projects exploring (among other things):
  • how environmental context can impact perceptions and preferences of scents;
  • how different framings and can influence individuals’ appraisal of situations and influence capicity/cognitive reserves;
  • how co-parents undergo bhevaioral and physiological syncrany in a mildly stressful situation with a young child

Full-time Research Assistant & Lab Manager

(PI: Alexander Todorov)

Princeton University

June 2020 - January 2017

• Using psychophysical, neuroimaging, and general experimental methods in the lab and online, investigating how people evaluate their environments and how these evaluations shape perceptions, decisions, and interactions.
• Worked on several projects exploring (among other things):
  • how the distribution of facial features in an environment may bias people’s evaluations of others;
  • how people integrate physical appearance and individualizing information in their impressions of others;
  • how people are able to associate affective information with faces and its limitations;
  • how people’s mental images of a prototypical group member differ depending upon the label used to describe said group (e.g., labeling immigrants as “illegal” vs. “legal”);
  • data-driven models of social perception, and the relative contributions of consensus and consistency in decision making.

Graduate Student Researcher

(PI: Wayne Chan)

Rutgers University, Camden

September 2016 - September 2014

• Studied the effect of observer personality in person perception and bias using survey-based methods.
• Worked on projects exploring:
  • how people use stereotypes to judge strangers’ personality from minimal external information;
  • how personality predicts the degree people ascribe humanity to the elderly and people with mental illnesses;

Volunteer Undergraduate Research Assistant

(PI: Wayne Chan)

Rutgers University, Camden

May 2014 - January 2014

• Studied the effect of observer personality in person perception and bias using survey-based methods.
• Worked on project exploring:
  • how prejudice towards various across various age groups and how it may influence attraction;

Volunteer Undergraduate Research Assistant

(PI: Christopher Nave)

Rutgers University, Camden

May 2013 - Janaury 2012

• Using behavioral coding using the Riverside Behavioral Q-set, studied the impact and stability of personality over the lifespan and its impact on behaviors.
• Worked on projects exploring:
  • how childhood personality impacts health behaviors and cognition several decades later;
  • how gay and lesbian couples provide social support and regulate their partners’ health behaviors;

Online Adjunct Instructor

Instructor for Social Research and Statistics (SOC-400-O500)

Grand Canyon University

Current - 2021

• Serving as an instructor for 8-week online section of required research methods course, adhering to departmental standards and requirements, moderating discussion question, providing supplemental materials, and resources, grading assignments, and managing classroom.

Tutor

Independent Contractor

Self

2020 - 2017

• Tutored both traditional college students and adult learners in statistics, psychology, neuroscience, and general SPSS use, utilizing both in-person and online settings.

Teaching Assistant

Camden Department of Psychology

Rutgers University, Camden

Spring 2015

• Course: Statistics for Social Sciences (50:830:250) (Instructor: Wayne Chan)
• Prepared and gave weekly class lectures, created and graded weekly homework assignments and exams, and met with students for additional course assistance in small groups as well as open sessions.

Faculty Assistant

Camden Department of Psychology

Rutgers University, Camden

Spring 2015 - Fall 2014

• Courses: Social Psychology (50:830:335) (Instructor: Wayne Chan) & Psychology of Prejudice (50:830:461) (Instructor: Wayne Chan)
• Moderated online discussion forums and graded students’ weekly reaction blog assignments.

Data-driven models of face-based trustworthiness judgments unconfounded by attractiveness

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Submitted

• Authored with DongWon Oh, Nicole Wedel, and Alexander Todorov
• https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/p8mcg

Insta-learn: Face stereotypes emerge and persist through insufficient statistical learning.

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Under Revisions

• Authored with Xuechunzi Bai, Stefan Uddenberg, and Alexander Todorov.
• https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/te3s4

Learning the affective value of people: More than affect-based mechanisms

Acta Psychologica

N/A

2020

• Authored with Chiara Ferrari, DongWon Oh, and Alexander Todorov.
• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103011

Who humanizes others?: The role of openness in humanization of people with mental illness and the elderly

Poster presented at the Society for Personality & Social Psychology Annual Convention in San Diego, CA

N/A

2016

• Authored with Matthew Hackman, Andres G. Martinez, and Wayne Chan
• http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27689.03687

Accuracy of gender, not ethnic, labels bias observer judgments of personality

Poster presented at the Association of Psychological Science Annual Meeting in New York City, NY

N/A

2015

• Authored with Wayne Chan
• http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.18461.56807

Dean’s First Year Award Scholarship

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Rutgers University–Camden

2014

The Lionel Cuffie Award for LGBTQ advocacy

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Rutgers University–Camden

2014

George Masterton Award in Sociology

N/A

Rutgers University–Camden

2014

Rory “Cal” Maradonna Award,

N/A

Rutgers University–Camden

2014

Member of Honors College, Class of 2014

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Rutgers University–Camden

2014 - 2010

James Dickson Carr Scholarship

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Rutgers University–Camden

2014 - 2010

Inducted Member of the Athenaeum Honors Society

N/A

Rutgers University–Camden

2013

Inducted Member of Psi Chi, The International Honor Society in Psychology

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Rutgers University–Camden

2012

Professional Organizations

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• American Psychological Association	Association for Psychological Science	Society for Personality & Social Psychology
  Society for Affective Science	International Social Cognition Network	Eastern Psychological Association
  Society for Psychophysiological Research	Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science

Campus Appeals Committee member

N/A

Rutgers University–Camden

2016

Graduate Student Health Psychology Faculty Search Committee Member

N/A

Rutgers University–Camden

2016 - 2015

Graduate Student Advisory Council

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Rutgers University–Camden

2016 - 2015

Scholastic Standing Committee Student Member

N/A

Rutgers University–Camden

2014 - 2013

(ASPSSC) Student Research Awards Reviewer

N/A

Association for Psychological Science Student Caucus

2014; 2016

Alexander Todorov

Professor of Behavioral Science and Rosett Faculty Fellow

Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637

 

alexander.todorov@chicagobooth.edu

646-812-3093

Dr. Todorov was the principal investigator of the lab worked I worked in from 2017-2020, but has since moved tothe University of Chicago from Princeton University

Wayne Chan

Research Scientist III

Covered California, California Department of Health Care Services, Sacramento, CA 95815

 

ucbwayne@gmail.com

925-388-6369

Dr. Chan was my master’s thesis advisor and principal investigator of previous lab that volunteered in.

Stefan Uddenberg

Principal Researcher

Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637

 

stefan.uddenberg@chicagobooth.edu

323-207-0314

Dr. Uddenberg was the postdoctoral fellow from the lab worked in from 2017-2020, but has moved to the University of Chicago from Princeton University.

Alicia G. Carmichael

Research Process Director

BioSocial Methods Collaborative, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

 

almagior@umich.edu

734-764-4265

Ms. Carmichael is the Research Process Director of the BioSocial Methods Collaborative at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She oversaw the day-to-day research activities of the lab and was my direct supervisor